Elektra KB.: 10/1/11

Odeon Contemporary Art Fair in Bogotá

This is an image of the El Garaje gallery booth at the Odeon Contemporary Art Fair in Bogotá, (which took place at the end of October). They showed my early photography work "Women That Live in the Collective Imagery".

(A series of portraits exploring the stereotypes that society has of women and that live in the collective imagery) (Una serie de retratos que exploran los estereotipos que la sociedad tiene de la mujer y que viven en la imagineria del colectivo)

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Visual Insurgency "Something To Show: Elektra KB was born in Odessa, URSS and Raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Elektra lives and works in New York. Anti-speciesist+Sober+Positive+Political+Pro-choice+ free thinker .

I use art’s critical power to counteract and intervene in opposition to the cruelty of Imperial dominance. I construct alternative realms of resistance, where utopia has not quite been reached. I wish for the work of art to create a situation in which the viewer will reflect or mirror her or himself in what is unveiled through the work by scooping out our essence, to find a reflection of our consciousness and have a conversation with it. I work with ludisme to approach serious subjects, creating a socially aware dialogue seeking the return to instinctive morality and the ultimate liberation from oppression. I am interested in the creation of alternatives to barbarism for true human fulfillment, independent from alienation and the degradation of the individual. We live in a state of barbarism and self -estrangement, consequence of carefully crafted unintelligible dogmas. Morality is present in an instinctive manner in all animals, humans and non-humans alike. Institutions of power, such as the church and the state, have created their own, based on primitive superstitions, which has lost all ties, with real morality. Therefore, we live dangerously alienated from our true animal instinctive moral in the cult of abstract humans, which I mock by creating a fictitious world. The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia, is a critique against our contemporary status quo, and a call to break from it. A mythological world which I created, where weak human beings live as machines at the mercy of a world fascist empire lead by the White Papess and the T.R.O.G.’s army, the Beings. The citizens of T.R.O.G, in search of Tetrapharmakos (the essence of pleasure and happiness) live in a period of imminent intense geological and social upheaval during which tensions built up over centuries will be discharged. The citizens of T.R.O.G, hypnotized, have forgotten what reality is and live at the mercy of unintelligible dogmas. The resistance and uprising is lead by spirit Insurgent Women, The entities that populate my work are often purging threads out of their mouths, which allude to a physical and emotional catharsis that expresses what is ignored and repressed, what we are forced to hide, a mute scream. I explore through my imagery, among other things, the anti-patriarchal struggle and issues on Neo-Colonialism. The Insurgent Women are akin to the medieval heretics, which fought for land against the monarchic theocracy and landlords in the feudal setting. I have always felt without sense of place. A foreigner everywhere I have lived, always an outsider. My only constant is the world I have created. A world inside the world. I am in the ultimate quest for liberation, searching for my anodyne.

Insurgencia Visual Algo Para Mostrar. Elektra KB nació en Odessa, URSS y creció en Bogotá, Colombia. Trabaja y vive en Nueva York. Anti-especista+Abstemia+Positiva+Politica+Pro-choice y libre pensadora.

Odeon Contemporary Art Fair in Bogotá

Limited editions prints for purchase at COMPANY

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